Good morning everyone, my name is Pat Lester, a Morning Call reporter who covers the East Penn area of the Lehigh Valley.

More importantly, at least for the purposes of this blog, I’m a parent in training.

In the coming weeks and months I’ll occasionally share some stories of my son Cole, who soon turns three, in the hopes of stirring some on-line conversation or debate and perhaps seek some reassurance that I am an OK parent.

I keep trying to tell myself I’m doing a good job, but sometimes…

Like the other day, when I was in the kitchen getting ready for work and Cole wandered over to the counter where I was cutting up some carrots. He started reaching up to grab something while standing dangerously close to the steps leading to the back door.

It just happened to be the area I’ve told him time and again was no place to be fooling around.

And this time, it happened. He went rolling down three steps onto his back.

Watching the tears run down his cheek, I didn’t know whether to console or scold him.

So I did both.

His reaction was predictable: “Mommy.”

Hopefully he’s finally learned why daddy and mommy keep nagging him about how playing next to the stairs isn’t allowed.

Turns out he wasn’t hurt too badly. After crying for a good five or six minutes, he seemed to be OK.

I, on the other hand, left for the work carrying a heavy load of guilt.

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These modifications tend to be elective, and also usually do not really need to be performed. As an alternative, they can be presented like recommendations to attempt to reduce some time for the purpose to change startup programs xp to start faster. These changes are sophisticated and will merely be tested out in case you are confident with doing it and also have made back up of your computer data.